Black history, or African-American history, is full of fascinating stories, rich culture, great art, and courageous acts that were undertaken within circumstances that we can hardly imagine in modern society. While Civil Rights events are the most common themes in our studies, we should resist equating African-American history only with Civil Rights-era history. There is so much more to explore! This list contains 50 prompts that might lead you into some interesting and little-known information about African-American history.
Note: Your first challenge in studying some of the topics below is finding resources. When conducting an Internet search, be sure to place quotation marks around your search term (try different variations) to narrow your results.
- African-American newspapers
- African-American soldiers in the American Revolution
- African-American soldiers in the Civil War
- Aviators
- Buffalo Soldiers
- Business-owning slaves
- Buying time
- Camp Logan Riots
- Clennon Washington King, Jr.
- Coffey School of Aeronautics
- Crispus Attucks
- Domestic labor strikes in the South
- Finding lost family members after emancipation
- First African Baptist Church
- Fort Mose
- Freedom's Journal
- Gospel music
- Gullah heritage
- Harlem Hellfighters
- Harlem Renaissance
- Harriet Tubman
- Historically Black Colleges
- History of rock-and-roll
- Inventors
- John Brown
- Jumping the broom
- Manumission papers
- Maroon villages in the eighteenth century
- Midwifery
- Motown Records
- Multi-cultural pirate ships
- Nat Turner
- Otelia Cromwell
- Property-owning slaves
- Purchasing freedom
- Ralph Waldo Tyler
- Register of Free Persons of Color
- Secret schools in antebellum America
- Sherman's March followers
- Slave Narratives
- Susie King Taylor
- The Amistad
- The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
- The Communist Party (involvement)
- The Great Migration
- The Haitian Revolution
- Tuskegee Airmen
- Underground Railroad
- Urban slavery (related to buying time)
- Wilberforce College, Ohio
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